Mike Taylor on Nostr: "The researchers recruited students and offered them money to deactivate their TikTok ...
"The researchers recruited students and offered them money to deactivate their TikTok and Instagram accounts for four weeks. On average, students needed to be paid about $50 per account to agree to do this ($59 for TikTok and $47 for Instagram). However, when told that if there were enough recruits, every student at the university would be required to deactivate their accounts, they would PAY about $50 to live for a month in a world without TikTok and Instagram."
https://timharford.com/2024/04/a-tiktok-ban-wont-solve-social-medias-collective-trap/Published at
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